Cash carrier



H. P.- CANTON CASH CARRIER Filed Dec. 12. 1923 Patented Aug. 19, 1924.

T E S ITED ST HAROLD P. CANTON, OF UNION HILL, NEW JERSEY, ASSIGNOR To (3:86 G ATLAS SYSTEll/IS, INC., 013 NEW YORK, N. Y., A CORPORATION OF NEW YORK.

CASH CARRIER.

Application filed December 12, 1923. Serial N10. 680,095.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HAR LD P. CANTON, a citizen of the United States, residing at Union Hill, in the county of Hudson and State of New Jersey, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Cash Carriers, of which the following is a specification.

The invention relates to the cylindrical receptacles used for transmission through the tubes in pneumatic carrier systems. These carriers are generally marked for identification by numbers or other charactors; such marks may also serve to distinguish between carriers used for cash and credit sales for the convenience of the salesman and the cashier. The object of the present invention is to provide means whereby the salesman and the cashier by simply grasp ing the carrier in the act of sending or re ceiving, can determine its type without visual inspection, thus effecting a saving in time.

The invention consists in certain novel features of construction by which the above object is attained, to be hereinafter described and claimed.

The accompanying drawings show a pre ferred form of the invention and form a part of this specification.

Figure 1 is a side elevation of a carrier embodying the invention.

Figure 2 is a transverse section taken on the line 22 in Figure 1.

Figure 3 is an end view of the carrier.

Similar reference numerals indicate the same parts in all the figures.

The main structure of the carrier is as usual and comprises an outer cylindrical shell 10 inclosing the inner shell 11, both having openings at 12 and 13' arranged to register in the open condition of the carrier induced by a partial rotation of the shells relatively to each other. The carrier is equipped with buffer heads 14 and packing rings 15 at each end, and the buffer heads may carry the usual disk 16 bearing an identification character 17, shown in Figure 3 as a numeral. v

In order that the carrier may be easily recognized as to type by the sense of feeling, the outer periphery or surface of the shell 10 is so conditioned as to be readily distinguished from the'smooth cylindrical shape of the usual carrier. This may be accomplished by various means; in the carrier shown in the drawings the outer shell lO is provided with a plurality of rounded spurs or projecting points 18, preferably formed integral with the shell by forcing the thin material thereof outwardly at intervals. 1

At the salesmans station is a supply of carriers, both of the usual smooth cylindrical type and the roughened type, in the same receptacle. In forwarding a cash sale, for example, the salesman selects by touch a smooth carrier which on arrival at the cashiers desk is instantly recognized by the cashier as a cash sale carrier, and the contents treated accordingly. In forwarding a credit sale the salesman similarly selects a roughened carrier which on reaching the hand of the cashier is known at once as a credit sale carrier and the amount charged to the customers account, thus saving the time of the cashier otherwise lost by inspecting the carrier or its contents to determine the character of the sale.

As before stated the roughening of the shell 10 may be effected in any suitable manner, as by circumferential or longitudinal corrugations, or other protuberances; the rounded spurs 18 as shown in the drawings are preferred as being easily distinguished in the grasp of the haiid, and easily formed on the shell without undue distortion of the latter or requiring an increase of material.

The usual number orcharacter 17 serves to indicate the salesmans station as usual.

I claim z- 1. cash carrier designed for pneumatic tube service, the outer periphery of which is provided with a grasping surface disposed intermediate the buffer heads and definitelyconstructed toindicate the special type of said carrier by the sensation oftouch on the part of the person handling the same.

2. The cash carrier described having an inner and an outer shell, the latter having outwardly projecting protuberances adapted to indicate the special type of said carrier by the sensation of touch on the part of the person handling the same.

3. The cash carrier described having an inner and an outer shell, the latter having a plurality of outwardly projecting spurs formed integral therewith and adapted to inhandling the same. 10 p In testimony that I claim the invention above set forth I affix my signature hereto.

HAROLD P. CANTON. 

